After playing MAG for a couple of day, and reading the posts here in the posts I have come to some conclusions. I feel the pain for those of us (yes, me included) that are not that happy with the game. I was pretty upset with it but I am hanging in their and just trying to learn the maps and weapons better. One thing that became clear in MAG is that it will become a campers/snipers haven. The maps are HUGE and long shots are everywhere. In one aspect I think the developers were trying to create a real combat game rather than an arcade shooter. In some ways they succeeded and in other ways they, well rather than say failed, I will say need improvement.

Team work is supposed to be the heart of this game. Unfortunately most of the players are not doing that at this stage. Most of the time everyone is trying to figure out everything and/or doing things on their own. I bet any "clan" that actually does do things like the game was made for will make havoc with everyone. And as several of you mentioned the kid from MW2 coming over to MAG and play that style (run/gun) is going to wind up spending a LOT of time re-spawning. With that in mind here is what I see so far....(my opinion only)

1. Re-spawn takes way too much time. Worst yet it only re-spawns from specific points. Your squad can get trapped in a spawn kill. You definitely need to change spawn sites when that happens or get reinforcements fast. Also, most of the action is like 1/2 mile from your spawn and it takes a while to run back. At least it seems like 1/2 mile.

2. Run & gun and expect to be killed 5 times as often as MW2. I sort of made up the "5 times" but you get the point. It also takes you back to number 1 above.

3 The PMC you join has different weapons! I have not tried Valor yet so I have no opinion on it EXCEPT I felt a lot of MW2 players would pick it. I started out with Raven with the high tech weapons and black outfits. Biggest problems with them is you are easy to see in cover and the weapons lack stopping power! I then used another account and tried S.V.E.R. and have become to like it. The weapons are much more powerful than Raven and you can hide in the bush with the camo. I am a sniper at heart, I cannot run/gun even in MW2 that well. I still feel accuracy is a bit off but I don't have some of the better attachments yet.

3. The point system takes forever to get perks! You level up a whole level and only get 1 point (what's that name, for upgrading weapons.) It took me all day to get 6 points to buy stuff.

4. About the medical kit. Good luck using it to help your team. Unless you are basically run/gun how else are you going to use it? If you snipe, by the time you get to them they have bleed out, not to mention you are going to take a bullet or two.

5. Teamwork has not been happening in ANY of the squads I have played to date. That would help a lot. One problem with this is you need a team that assigns everyone a task. It fail because most kids do not want to be, say, a medic; they want to shoot as many people possible.

Well, that's my take on my short 2 or 3 days play time on MAG. I will keep camping for now. If all else I always have "Big Little Planet" and the paintonater.

Cheers!